Stand-downs

Schools must effectively involve students in learning to ensure educational success. Stand-downs, suspensions, and exclusions help provide indications of where engagement in productive learning may be absent and behavioural issues may be present. Stand-downs, suspensions and exclusions are not measures of student behaviour but measures of a school's reaction to behaviour. What one school may choose to suspend for another may not.

Age standardised rate is ‘observed’/’baseline’*’national rate per 1,000’. Care should be taken when examining age-standardised rates, especially in the cases when small numbers are involved. For more information on age-standardisation see the Technical Notes/Definitions tab above.

International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.

‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.

Ethnicity is prioritised. MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African) students are included with ‘Other’.

Table 2: Comparison stand-down rates data (2017)

Comparison group

Gender

Observed stand-downs

Baseline stand-downs

Age-standardisedstand-down rate per 1,000 students

Willowbank School (Howick)

Female

0

4.4

0.0

Willowbank School (Howick)

Male

7

4.6

35.5

Willowbank School (Howick)

Total

7

9.0

18.2

Auckland Region

Female

1158

2,849.4

9.6

Auckland Region

Male

3872

3,001.1

30.4

Auckland Region

Total

5030

5,850.5

20.2

Contributing

Female

254

1,297.6

4.6

Contributing

Male

2494

1,382.0

42.5

Contributing

Total

2748

2,679.5

24.1

State: Not Integrated

Female

4031

7,497.1

12.7

State: Not Integrated

Male

12757

7,933.8

37.8

State: Not Integrated

Total

16788

15,431.0

25.6

Decile 08

Female

275

1,038.0

6.2

Decile 08

Male

971

1,149.4

19.9

Decile 08

Total

1246

2,187.4

13.4

New Zealand

Female

4233

8,673.9

11.5

New Zealand

Male

13491

9,050.1

35.1

New Zealand

Total

17724

17,724.0

23.5

Age standardised rate is ‘observed’/’baseline’*’national rate per 1,000’. Care should be taken when examining age-standardised rates, especially in the cases when small numbers are involved. For more information on age-standardisation see the Technical Notes/Definitions tab above.

International fee paying students, adult students (age 19+), and private students are excluded.

‘x’ = less than 5 students in the denominator for this category, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.

Comparison groups are selected based on profile of school at time of data collection.